LaTanya Richardson
2) All about us
Publisher
Codeblack Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When two filmmakers hit a brick wall in Hollywood, they set off for Mississippi to find Morgan Freeman and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way, they soon discover what matters to them most.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Darren Hill [is] a slick-talking but down-on-his-luck NYC advertising exec who returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darren can collect the money, he must fulfill his aunt's final wish -- to create a local choir and lead them on to win the annual 'Gospel Explosion' competition. Darren soon finds out that his hometown is full of colorful characters but short on talented singers. Then he meets Lilly,...
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume LVI
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of Pat Conroy's year of teaching at Yamacraw School on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
6) Lone star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An unsolved murder in a Texas border town uncovers a tale of corruption, intrigue, and forbidden love. Includes original theatrical trailer.
7) Blackout
Publisher
BET Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at what happened in Brooklyn's forgotten East Flatbush neighborhood during the largest blackout in 2003, and how the looters emerged and the violence erupted as darkness came.
8) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Language
English
Formats
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry, the visionary playwright who authored the groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun. An overnight sensation, the play transformed the American theater and has long been considered a classic, yet the remarkable story of the playwright faded from view. With this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain resurrects the Lorraine Hansberry we have forgotten--a passionate artist, committed activist...